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We have long come to understand that our current environment does not best serve us. Learning works best when it is created together through discovery, and not when a teacher stands in front of 30 learners reading from a screen. It works when the learner directs their...

Phenomenon-based learning is a learner-centred, multidisciplinary instructional approach that is based on student inquiry and problem solving. ... This means that a topic must be a real-world issue or “phenomena” and that learners need to apply different perspectives...

Providing blocks of time for development of independence and responsibility can grow as age increases. Teacher presence will be strong with the younger students as they learn and practice the skills of independent schoolwork and responsibility. Within boundaries and...

I have concluded that our contemporary education systematically trashes creativity and unwittingly punishes students for exercising their imagination. The structural basis for this passive hostility to the imagination is the grid of learning outcomes in alignment with...

Why not create your school in recognition of the developmental stages in a child’s life: The School of Genesis: Early Years (Ages 3 to 6); The School of Curiosity (Ages 6 to 9); The School of Connections (Ages 10 to 14); and The School of Challenge (Ages 15 to...

Since the COVID-19 pandemic turned education on its head, school leaders and policymakers have been eager to understand how to use the learnings gained from this disruption to their advantage.